Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Minor

Coordinator: Associate Professor Glasco

The Elon Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies program offers an interdisciplinary collection of courses focusing on the study of the ways human lives have been organized around gender, sexualities, and inequality on those bases. Diverse faculty members offer rigorous and compelling courses that incorporate up-to-date scholarship. The extensive course offerings differ from year to year and come from a variety of fields, including upper-level interdisciplinary seminars.

Courses in the WGSS minor raise awareness of how gender and/or sexuality interacts with race, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic class, religion, and age to affect human experience. Courses emphasize detailed analysis and reflection about gender and sexualities that encourages critical thinking about the world around us. WGSS minors, who are across the gender spectrum, integrate knowledge across disciplines and seek to connect knowledge through applied experiences. They are educated citizens committed to justice and equality.

A minor in WGSS complements any major and contributes to personal growth as well. Elon WGSS minors go to graduate school; they have careers in social services, business, politics, teaching and many other fields; and they make a distinctive impact on their families and communities.

Minor Requirements

Required courses: 8 sh

WGS 110SEX AND GENDER

4 sh

WGS 300CURRENT CONTROVERSIES IN FEMINISM

4 sh

Select twelve semester hours from the following: 12 sh

ANT 3240ANTHROPOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER

4 sh

ANT 3290GENDER INEQUALITY ACROSS CULTURES

4 sh

ARH 3200ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART

4 sh

ARH 3210ISSUES IN AMERICAN ART

4 sh

COR 3260HUMAN SEXUALITY

4 sh

COR 3270WOMEN, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT

4 sh

COR 3380AMERICAN ADOLESCENCE

4 sh

COR 3460CHILDBIRTH

4 sh

COR 4060WOMEN'S HEALTH ISSUES

4 sh

COR 4530RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY

4 sh

DAN 3200SPECIAL TOPICS IN DANCE

2-4 sh

ECO 3410GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT

4 sh

ENG 3920WOMEN IN LITERATURE: FEMINIST APPROACHES

4 sh

GBL 2860INDIA'S IDENTITIES: RELIGION, CASTE AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH INDIA

4 sh

HST 3550ORAL HISTORY: NORTH CAROLINA WOMEN

4 sh

HST 3640HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE U.S.

4 sh

HSS 3110SOCIAL POLICY AND INEQUALITY

4 sh

HSS 3490VIOLENCE IN FAMILIES

4 sh

HSS 3510GLOBAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

4 sh

IDS 2120WOMEN, MEN AND SOCIETY

4 sh

IGS 1410/POL 1410INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

4 sh

MUS 4400WOMEN IN MUSIC

4 sh

PHL 3200RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY

4 sh

PHL 3450SEX, GENDER, POWER

4 sh

PHL 3460PHILOSOPHY OF THE BODY

4 sh

PSY 2210THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

4 sh

PSY 3520PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER

4 sh

PSY 3550PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN SEXUALITY

4 sh

REL 1810BUDDHIST TRADITIONS

4 sh

REL 1830ISLAMIC TRADITIONS

4 sh

REL 1850JEWISH TRADITIONS

4 sh

REL 3260Sex Lives of Saints: Sex, Gender and Ancient Mediterranean Religions

4 sh

REL 3600HINDU GODDESSES: FROM MYTHS TO MOVIES

4 sh

REL 3610WOMEN, RELIGION AND ETHNOGRAPHY

4 sh

REL 3630WOMEN IN ISLAM: VENERATION, VEILS AND VOICES

4 sh

REL 4600SPECIAL TOPICS

SOC 3110SOCIOLOGY OF FAMILIES

4 sh

SOC 3450SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER

4 sh

WGS 371-79SPECIAL TOPICS IN WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITIES STUDIES

4 sh

WGS 461-69SEMINARS ON VARIOUS TOPICS

4 sh

WGS 481INTERNSHIP IN WOMEN'S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITIES STUDIES

1-4 sh

WGS 491INDEPENDENT STUDY

1-4 sh

WGS 499INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

1-4 sh

WGS 481: (one to four semester hours) or discipline-specific internship cross-listed with WGS

*Other courses cross-listed with disciplines will be offered from time to time with a suffix “WG” or parenthetical phrase indicating that they may be used to fulfill Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies requirements.

Total Credit Hours: 20

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